Paine

There is the dualism between the appearances and the objects generated through thinking. But this is nothing like the "hylomorphism" presented by Aris...

Here is the whole paragraph of your citation: The boundary helps us understand what our intuitions do not give us. But Kant puts the kibosh on any att...

We have both read much of what the other has not. That is a peculiar feature of this space. So, we could all benefit from what troubled you while read...

I appreciate this translation. I cut my teeth with the Norman Kemp Smith translation fifty years ago. It was like being sent to a different planet.

I will have to think about it in those terms. I don't want to get too far over my skis. In the passages I quoted, the view of Descartes and Berkeley a...

Your observation regarding the structure of CPR is interesting. I best not put my trowel away. What still surprises me about the later sections is whe...

I submit that it is the differences between how philosophers use terms that undermines making a lexicon that underlies all the possible usages. So, fo...

I will try to approach the passage by comparing Kant's objections to Hume with Kant's arguments against Descartes and Berkeley: Immediately following ...

Kant disagrees about there being nothing to say about either. He distinguishes our ignorance from a skepticism that would presume more than it can dis...

It is true that many different beliefs agreed to the First Amendment establishment of religion clause. The toleration of differences was a rejection o...

The idea of the person.

The Deists did not agree with your assessment. The idea was central to the separation of church and state in America.

Does your approach amount to: I propose that there is/was a strong countervailing movement against this idea;

So, the Gerson argument? There is only the possibility of a made world against whatever one might propose?

If I can address this topic, I will try it in the Rödl thread. It is a difficult conversation when you make certain claims and then disqualify yoursel...

Which permits the thinking about the soul excluded in your previous argument.

But that is not Kant's complaint against Descartes. The limits of intuition do not inform us as to what is possible or not. There is no phrase in Kant...

Strictly speaking, Kant is saying that the "I" cannot be experienced as "real" the way other things in life can be. That follows a way of thinking abo...

Well, Kant was a committed Lutheran who puzzled in the Critique of Judgement how Spinoza could carry on without the belief in the continuance of his p...

What you describe seems to express the view of Deism, a collection of views from the Enlightenment that welcomed a certain view of creation but questi...

In support of your observation, Kant went as far as rejecting Descartes' grounds for confirming his own "thinking" as an experience.

Okay. I will try to show up there with something.

Your question about choices is a fair response to my challenge. I will think about it. I get that an old thread may not be the best place to respond. ...

I will try to answer your question in the next few days. I have work to do. On the other hand, we have exchanged words for many years now regarding ho...

By presenting the readings concerning different ways to understand idealism in Kant and Hegel, I was not trying to challenge your views regarding the ...

Yes, that is what I meant. As for what can be taken as verification, this passage from Žižek helps me see different ways to read Hegel that bears on w...

I read Rödl to not saying we could know the limits of "logical" principles. If we cannot know their limits as the basis of "experience", we cannot kno...

The work is difficult. At the same time, it is painfully simple. It relies upon very few arguments. repeated ad infinitum. I don't read it as a replac...

No. That would be taking for granted that we are given the means to compare "our" necessity with what is not "ours"; Which was the original complaint ...

In your description of how the term, "real" can be compared to the term, "mind-independence", I am reminded of your attention given to Rödl awhile bac...

Less than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek. Sort of a last word from him. He has played a kind of jester in the past. Not here. A scene upon the agora.

It gets difficult when the 'deep state' is your group in power. Claimed but not owned. Needing the old narratives but the victim of them at the same t...

Fool me once:

I count the ???????? by each citizen and will leave of my own accord. May fortune be yours.

If you are satisfied by your own efforts, what is the purpose of seeking validation from others?

I am glad that you focused upon exploitation and inequality because it points back to the centrality of lordship and bondage in Hegel's Phenomenology....

If you are the only one who could do that for yourself, what does it mean to appeal to others?

If you are satisfied that all is determined, why ask about it? Would it change something?

I guess that one example of negativity being 'reified' points to Adorno objecting to the "material" as a reliable pole star in Marx and Lenin (and Luk...

How does that statement square with your years of defending a particular politician?

That reminds me of Thomas Paine saying:

It does seem to be an element of the market that protectionist policies keep colliding with. None of the "balance of trade" talk performed so far by t...

Stanly and friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF4Y3uWKxvo

I think the question of how quickly the merchants are hit depends on the amount of front-loading that has been done. There have been a number of repor...

A lot of mystics were focused upon what they should do upon the grounds they found themselves to stand upon. The rejection of magical techniques in ma...

I take turns. My standing desk is the preferred location.

If that is the banner they are sailing under, it is exquisitely anti-constitutional: And since the people carrying out this agenda are sworn to defend...

Why not?

You keep bringing it up.

I read that essay at your behest. It clarifies a lot of some people's thinking: Engineering social change.